Sentence examples for popular apprehension from inspiring English sources
"popular apprehension" is correct and usable in written English
It is a phrase which means a widespread feeling or fear of something, especially among the general public. For example, you could say, "The popular apprehension of the coronavirus pandemic has caused a great deal of anxiety in many people."
With the Japanese crisis, popular apprehension has also soared.
Mr Powell has given satisfying expression to the nebulous popular apprehension that everything has just really got sort of dumb.
And while there may be desultory political coverage of these pharaonic undertakings the popular and collective apprehension of them is more or less nonexistent; apart, that is, from Private Eye's squib.
Though Mrs. Merkel enjoys strong popular support here, economic discontent runs high, and apprehensions tend to center on bread-and-butter matters rather than faraway security issues.
Yates's focus on human weakness and self-deceit never made him all that popular in his lifetime (1926-92), so it's a joy tempered with apprehension to see this unflinching volume in which people trick themselves into seeking what they don't want.
The STAI-S [50] (German translation by [51]) is a very popular self-report rating scale designed to measure transitory feelings of tension and apprehension, or state anxiety.
The convention of coal companies grappled with these popular images: Air pollution and visibility, mine safety and labor regulations, unregulated strip mining, local apprehension, global warming, acid rain, soot and particulates, acid mine drainage and abandoned mines and more subsidence, the dreaded images of coal-draped Eastern Europe, and an unfair media.
Yet his apprehension that an argument over independence warrants more than shopping-bill logic has hit a popular nerve.
For many Iraqis, especially those with memories of the four coups in the decade after the fall of the monarchy in 1958, the apprehension underlines a dangerous combination of forces here that long bedeviled the Middle East: an unpredictable, fractured military and rising popular frustration with an isolated political class that has at times seemed rudderless, even helpless.
